A Review of Smartphone Impact on Human Health and Behavior

Abstract

 Nowadays, world is incomplete without the usage of smartphones. Therefore, it becomes important to conduct research for estimating negative effects on health due to the exposure of smart phones. This study targets on to explore the several aspects of mobile phones mainly estimating the connections between mental health symptoms with the psychosocial features of smart phone usage in a potential group of young people. This process includes the development of a statistical approach for the validation of the association between smart phone utilization and the health issues as heat/pain. Furthermore, this paper also shows the investigation reports about smartphone impacts on hand as well as head when it is at dedicated or idle mode. It can be estimated with the research on muscle actions and thumb motions/postures during the smartphone usage mostly while texting. This paper illustrates the outcomes of performing several smartphone operations with their impact on human health. In addition, this study also discriminate the impact according to gender or age. Several interesting outcomes are obtained as females have higher muscle activity as compared to males leads to higher thumb motion velocities, greater thumb abduction and lesser breaks during thumb motions. Electrogoniometer can measure the registered thumb motions. The study depicts several cases where thumb positions and muscle tasks get affected according to holding or texting actions of smart phones and standing/sitting posture of human body. Therefore, this paper provides a comprehensive study on the impact of smart phones on human body including physical, mental and psychological manner.